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First, his eyes are blue because it represents his hopes for everyone he looks down onto. Secondly, the yellow rim of his glasses foreshadow the corruption of the characters. After thinking about this, I came to a conclusion that the billboard of the Dr.’s eyes represent God. This is because he is always watching over The Valley of Ashes and everyone else in the story just as God watches over everyone as well. Before Tom and Gatsby have their dispute, Nick takes notice to the eyes again “[keeping] their vigil” (Fitzgerald 124).

The green light first emerges before we even meet Gatsby, but is important to him because Nick can see him as “he stretched out his arms toward… a single green light, minute and far away, that may have been at the end of a dock” (21). The light represents Daisy and his wanting for her, as well as Gatsby attempting to reach his dream, which Daisy later becomes a part of. The green light appears again at the end of the book when Nick has “thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock” The light also represented Gatsby’s dream of being successful and “his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it” (180). The light has always illustrated Daisy and Gatsby would look for it to feel close to her. He also uses it as a guide for his dream, but now that Gatsby is dead, it is just a green light Nick sees as a reminder of the friend he loses

It is the same exact thing as the green light at the end of the dock. Once reading the book and understanding how much Gatsby loves Daisy, it makes so much more sense that the green light symbolizes

The most important symbol to show deeper meaning in The Great Gatsby is the green light on Daisy’s dock. The green light is presented as mysterious.

The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg are blue, gigantic retinas looking out over the Valley of Ashes through enormous yellow spectacles, as described in the second chapter of F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, they were placed there for an oculist to increase his practice’s awareness but we can speculate by the sun stained billboard’s withered appearance that any advertising it had once expressed has faded away. The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg may no longer exemplify this business but their symbolic emphasis in The Great Gatsby is far from mute. These oracle oculi are the epitome of the abandonment of the american dream, a vision of God for George Wilson that sees and judges the wasteland that surrounds him, and a watcher of the neglective

Dr. T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes stood on a billboard right above the Valley of Ashes,serving as a godly figure watching over the society. The billboard was created as an advertisement for an eye doctor while symbolizing God’s surveillance over the people in the book. These eyes are vividly described as “[. . .] blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high. The look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose...his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground [. . .]” (23). Fitzgerald portrays the large blue eyes, resembling God’s eyes, as being shaded by the yellow spectacles. The color yellow is seen throughout the novel, representing turmoil and corruption (Gatsby’s car). The color blue, showing the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, are disrupted by the yellow spectacles, left to see the corrupted society go astray.

Gatsby is mostly a very shrouded character in this book, as Nick is always imagining, speculating and talking about Gatsby. There never really is a clear representation of Gatsby, as his character throughout this book is a mysterious presence. This quote is interesting, because Gatsby seems to be longing for something, like the green light that he was reaching for in the end of Chapter 2, but in this quote, it represents Gatsby as a docile, peaceful man. To Nick, it seems like he favours Gatsby very much, almost as a benevolent presence with simply one smile. This quote characterises Gatsby very simply; Gatsby has an aura of being a very self-assured, confident rich man who is very sure of himself. He has built a great but mysterious career, and as a result, earned a lot of money that allows him to throw parties every Saturday for everyone except for himself. Perhaps in this quote the readers can understand that Gatsby is a thoughtful person who is omniscient. As the reader proceeds however, they realise that self-assured Gatsby is simply a facade; the real Gatsby underneath it, is more childish and

The green light at the end of Daisy's dock serves as a symbol of Gatsby's aspirations and desires. He sees it as a beacon of hope, a tangible representation of his ability to control his future with Daisy. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the green light is an illusion, an unattainable dream that Gatsby can never fully possess. This symbolizes the idea that no matter how much we strive for control, there are external forces that shape our lives beyond our

The Great Gatsby is one of the most read pieces of literature throughout the current modern Western world. High school kids all across the globe must learn and read it as part of their curriculum. One of the aspects that makes this novel so notable is that Fitzgerald, at no point in the story, needs to convey to his audience the theme of his novel directly. The main points of his novel are brought out by the powerful symbols he infuses in the book. Not only does he use them to convey his theme, but also ties them in to the rest of the story. Every aspect of this book is affected by the presence of one of his symbols. Through the use of the green light, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, and the Valley of the Ashes as symbols,

Through the repetition of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes, it becomes clear that the motif is more than the superficial meaning. Fitzgerald’s choice of setting is in the Roaring Twenties, where people fixate on their materialistic desire and in the process, neglect their spiritual values. In New York City, where wealth and fame are valued over all others, human moral slowly diminishes. As a reminder, Fitzgerald used Doctor T.J Eckleburg to represent that all unethical acts cannot escape God’s eyes. Nick is punctilious in noticing the strangeness of those gigantic eyes that overlook the entire city, yet his feeling is unspeakable. Nick recounts, “But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground” (Fitzgerald 24). As time goes by, the eyes witness more and more defunct humanity leading to the dimming of the eyes, symbolizing God’s dwindling faith toward mankind. To add to this disapproving tone, Fitzgerald portrays the road to New York City as sullen through phrases like “valley of ashes” and “small foul river”. The “valley of ashes” also symbolizes the moral decay from the continuously pursuit of wealth and the deteriorating beauty of nature due to industrialization. From the pessimistic introduction, it foreshadows the later downfall of the plot. Starting from the first encounter, Nick has an indescribable feeling derived from the cogent stare. For example, as Nick and Tom slowly “walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent

Emerging in the late 19th century, symbolism is a literary device that has been used to indirectly convey more than what the words appear to say to the reader. Since its first uses in American literature a few decades later, symbolism has changed the way that an author can tell a story to the people. Its usage in Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is noticeable to a sharp reader. Fitzgerald’s use of symbols in the novel include Meyer Wolfshiem, the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, and Jay Gatsby reaching to the green light in the distance, all represent symbols by meaning something more than what the words say.

Eckleburg. Since the billboard is placed in a poor area that has no hope of good health, the true meaning of the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg can be interpreted as the symbol for the eyes of god, the god of the spoiled American dream that encourages people to forget about everyone else and everything else and just focus on their “dream” to be super rich. The only image that represents the God are the eyes of Dr. J. L. Eckleburg that are looking at everyone from the billboard advertising glasses. These eyes serve as a symbol of hope for the wretched people of the valley of ashes who aspire to become wealthy with the progress of the “American Dream”. These previously hopeless people of the valley, instead of looking up to the sky for god’s light, would only be met with the gaze coming from this deity on the billboard. The eyes allude to being the eyes of god of the material world because they, just like the eyes of most gods of religions, are all seeing. This omnipotent aspect is evident throughout the novel and one of the events is when George Wilson recalls his last moments with Myrtle before she died, he ends his recollection saying, “Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night”. The eyes are, without any

J. Eckleburg” he describes them in a way that is somewhat eerie, they are described as “blue and gigantic” and that “They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose" Nick goes on giving a descriptive acknowledgment of these eyes until finally explaining the eyes in fact belong to an unkempt billboard. This is symbolism as the billboard is unkempt and forgotten about much like everything else in the Valley. It is as though Fitzgerald wrote this purposely to give your mind, ominous imagery to perhaps give the reader their own personal idea of what the eyes could be. It seems the billboard is placed ironically, as people don’t generally like to waste their sights on the valley, but the billboards eyes “brood” over the valley. This perhaps could be seen as a godlike figure in the book, as even though the “yellow spectacles”are placed on a “non-existent nose, ” they still see and witness all that goes on; much like the ‘all seeing

1. The green light, situated at the end of the Buchanan’s dock, represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates the light with Daisy and in Chapter one, he reaches toward it

These eyes, the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, represent many things to the characters in this novel. He represents, hope, despair, and God, all while staring